Net Neutrality: The Media Lies – Then Polls on the Results of Their Lies

Posted at 10:56 am on December 04, 2017 by Seton Motley

A couple of week’s ago, the Donald Trump Administration’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced they on December 14 would be rightly, reasonably undoing the Barack Obama Administration FCC’s ridiculous, regressive Internet power grab.

Behold Network Neutrality. And the Obama FCC pretending to be Congress – and “reclassifying” the Internet.

“Reclassification” is Gov Speak – for changing the regulatory category in which the Internet exists.

Since the 1990s privatization of the Internet, the Web has existed in very lightly regulated Title I.

Not surprisingly, when government leaves something largely alone – great things happen.

Nothing in human history has grown bigger, better and/or faster than the Net – in no small part because the government was doing nothing to “help.”

Of course, the Obama Administration couldn’t stand something so freely doing so well. So they – without benefit of Congress – “reclassified” the Web to under Title II.

Title II is a classification – from the 1934 Telecommunications Act. Get that? Nineteen thirty-four. Title II was created to regulate landline telephones. Get that? Landline telephones.

This for the Internet makes zero legal or technological sense. But for the Obama FCC – it made political sense. Because under Title II – there are mountain ranges of regulations and taxes to impose.

The Trump FCC is this month rightly, reasonably undoing this titanic stupidity.

And ever since, the “news” media has been subjecting us to their case of collective vapors.

We last week chronicled more than two dozen “news” stories – in which Titles I & II and/or reclassification are never, ever mentioned.

Which is wholly dishonest – if you want to honestly report what the Trump FCC is doing.

Today, let us look at some of the very many awful angles the media is taking on this – and piecemeal deal with their collectivist nonsense.

Not mentioned: Trump’s FCC – yes, during Thanksgiving week – released the actual text of the actual order. Nearly a month before the vote. The Trump FCC is doing this advance release of pending orders – for the first time in the history of the FCC.

Get that? Never, ever before has the FCC released the text of an order before they voted on it.